The need for country masks for future national greenhouse gas flux estimations

Summary, in English

The Paris Agreement requests a substantial reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These emissions are currently mainly estimated from bottom-up inventories and process-based models of land and ocean fluxes. Another, complementary approach is based on measurements of the atmospheric GHG concentration in combination with atmospheric inverse modelling to provide the GHG fluxes. For the latter approach the GIScience community should contribute with providing an appropriate country mask to enable estimations of national budgets. This paper aims at describing the requirement of such a country mask as well as report on technical solutions for preliminary tests we made on national GHG flux estimations.

• Author: Lars Harrie; Ute Karstens; Huiting Huang
• Editor: Ali Mansourian; Petter Pilesjö; Lars Harrie; Ron van Lammeren
• Department/s: Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre); Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science; eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
• Publishing year: 2018
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: Geospatial Technologies for All : short papers, posters and poster abstracts of the 21th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science. Lund University 12-15 June 2018, Lund, Sweden
• Links: https://agile-online.org/conference_paper/cds/agile_2018/shortpapers/114HarrieKarstensHuang.pdf
• Document type: Conference paper
• Publisher: Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe
• Topic: Physical Geography
• Keywords: greenhouse gas estimation; Inverse modelling; geodata; spatial interpolation; country mask
• Conference name: 21st AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, 2018
• Conference date: 2018-06-12 - 2018-06-15
• Conference place: Lund, Sweden
• Status: Published
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISBN: 978-3-319-78208-9